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I am slow at catching these things but I just discovered this: Soraka Excellent Adventure I seen several of the comics here and most of you probably have heard of it already but just in case you haven't - it's great!

seriously, Rengar, Darius, Jayce, Kha'Zix, Elise OP at release but they really underdo it on Vi?

Aww, c'mon. Release Rengar was so UP because someone on PBE abused all AD runes/keep Q'ing a camp to get ferocity before minions met in lane, and proceeded to take down a Lee Sin from 100 to 0 at LEVEL ONE. That's why they gutted him prior to release. It was only after some pretty ridiculous QOL changes that made Rengar so OP....

Which of course made Kha'zix underwhelming in comparison in the next release, considering Rengar could outlane and outjungle poor Kha.

As for Vi, I dunno about her. People like Dyrus and Stonewall rate her high, but I personally think she doesn't offer enough in a teamfight.

That's quite amusing. I've been watching Dyrus, TheOddOne and Guardsman Bob use Vi numerous times this week. Individually they did okay...in teamfights they got crushed after their burst. So if they're claiming that, I don't buy it.

^ Played a game last night, to me the biggest change was high-tier items for effective early game weapons like sheen and spirit visage, as well as the reworked masteries: supp=gold for hitting champions and MS boost finally got moved to a spot appropriate for its current effect, considering everyone got a flat 25 MS boost. The biscuit and ward is also much better than the +50g and having spellvamp combined with lifesteal in one makes it harder to have a cookie-cutter tree for everyone.

Vi seems fun to play, interesting mechanics with enough potential to smash newbies who'd focus a bruiser first in a TF, but I think I'd still pick Riven over her. The last two champions have also been compared to older ones (Zed-Talon, Nami-Janna). Shouldn't Nami be free this week btw?

I love everything about Vi except the fact that in ranked, she is almost a lock in for a loss for the side that picks her. I don't know what they can do to fix her. All I can say is that when I can kite/absorb a Vi as Taric for 20 seconds and wait for someone to come capitalise on my bait, it's pretty darn sad. There's too many top laners that spank her and there's too many junglers that offer more than she does. 1v1 she's fine in a lot of cases but teamfights...something isn't right. Something is going to get buffed and it's either Vault Breaker or Assault and Battery, because Excessive Force and Denting Blows are doing what they should be. Personally I think something has to be done with Vault Breaker. Removing the speed debuff and inability to choose direction when charging Vault Breaker would help. When Amumu has no hinderance with Bandage Toss, Nautilus none with Dredge Line, Maokai none with Twisted Advance, Nocturne none with Paranoia, Lee Sin with Sonic Wave, etc...I think the point is made. Make Vault Breaker an instant cast instead of that hindering charge time. Something in her damage needs to change but I don't know what.

The OGN Champions Quarterfinal between Cj Entus vs. Azubu Frost was one of the most amazing series I have ever seen. I'm not sure what OGN do in the way of VOD's but it is totally worth checking out if you can.

Kha'zix vs Zed in the final game...that would have been a nightmare for the other 8 players...

There had better be effing VODs.

I think so, OGN usually has a twitch.tv broadcast with vods.

EDIT: just checked, the vods are indeed on their twitch channel...but for subscribers only.

Saw the games live... didn't even know a Kha'zix could do so much burst damage
Initiation comp or not, picking Ashe in the blindpick match was quite the bold move I'd say, considering it was to be expected that CJ would play a similar set of bruisers/assas.

About the topic on Vi, the major thing I noticed is the fact she has nothing to restrain the AD she needs to kill : engaging with q is literally impossible once you play with people who got some experiences, the range is ridiculous and you can see it coming from far away, most ad like ez, cait graves, or any others things like those laugh their ass off.

If you fail q, then w is useless, very hard to proc w in tf against the one you hunt, and finally, the ulti simply has no damage, overly ridiculous damage at all level, and like maokai, it's the kind of ulti that makes you enter IN 5 people, but unlike maokai, you aren't tanky enough to survive this.

She is the kind of chara if you don't have a frozen mallet, you are useless, 'cause ennemy escapes easely but at the same time without a trinity she makes no damage. Cornelian dilemma

Common picks are very hard to replace imo...although some champions do make it to the popular rosters (Jayce and Lulu for example), most people stick to what works best(?) (Janna/Sona, Graves/Ez/Corki/Cait, Karthus/Orianna/Lux, etc).

That said, I'd love to see people diverge from these choices, as it would make games much more interesting to watch when it comes to people's reactions and item builds.